Discrete manufacturing

Manufacturing ERP with MRP, work orders and a shop floor you can see

Covadesk plans what to make and buy with MRP, sequences work orders across work centres, scans progress and scrap on the shop floor, measures OEE, and costs every order over its good output — with quality, maintenance and finance on the same system.

Built for: Furniture, metal fabrication, plastics, packaging, electrical and assembled-goods manufacturers making to stock or to order.

Covadesk manufacturing shop floor dashboard with open orders, capacity by work centre and OEE

The problems we solve

Where manufacturers lose money — and how Covadesk closes the gap

  • Shortages found at the machine

    MRP explodes multi-level bills of materials against stock and open orders and proposes what to buy and make before the line stops.

  • Unit cost that flatters bad runs

    Cost is spread over good output, not everything off the line — scrap was paid for, and the units that survived carry it.

  • Late orders nobody saw coming

    Open orders past due, and capacity committed over the next week by work centre, are on the shop-floor dashboard.

  • Machines that stop unannounced

    Preventive maintenance schedules raise work orders before the breakdown, from the same equipment register.

See it in action

What manufacturers see in Covadesk

Real Covadesk screens, shown with sample data.

Covadesk manufacturing shop floor dashboard with open orders, capacity by work centre and OEE

What the plant is making, how loaded it is, and how well it is running.

Features

Everything manufacturers need, in one system

Bills of materials and routings

What goes into a product and how it is made.

  • Multi-level BOMs with explosion to raw materials
  • Routings with operations, work centres, setup and run times
  • Work centres with capacity, efficiency and cost rates

Manufacturing orders

What the plant has been told to make.

  • Orders with product, quantity, priority and due date
  • Operations sequenced — operation 20 cannot start before 10 finishes
  • Material issues and finished-goods receipts posted to stock and the GL
  • Serial numbers that trace back to the order

MRP

What the plant is short of, and by how much.

  • Planner run over a chosen horizon
  • Net requirements from demand, stock and open orders
  • Suggested purchase and manufacturing orders — nothing created until you confirm

Shop floor and OEE

What is running, what is late, and how well the machines perform.

  • Shop-floor scanning of start, finish, output and scrap
  • Capacity committed over the next week by work centre
  • Good output against scrap per day
  • OEE — availability, performance and quality — per work centre

Quality, maintenance and costing

The systems around the line.

  • Inspection plans, non-conformance and corrective actions
  • Equipment register and preventive maintenance
  • Order costing from a ledger of material, labour and overhead entries
  • Planned versus actual cost with the variance explained

How it flows

One process, start to finish

  1. 01

    Plan

    Run MRP against demand and stock.

  2. 02

    Release

    Confirm suggested orders and release them to the floor.

  3. 03

    Make

    Operators scan operations, output and scrap.

  4. 04

    Inspect

    Quality checks pass or raise a non-conformance.

  5. 05

    Receive

    Finished goods go to stock; the order is costed.

  6. 06

    Ship and bill

    Delivery notes and invoices from the core sales modules.

Modules included

The Manufacturing (Discrete) pack

Assembled/discrete goods — work orders, MRP, shop-floor and quality.

Industry modules for manufacturers

Switched on by the pack from day one, on top of the backbone below.

  • Warehouse Management

    Operations

    Bin-level control inside the warehouse

    • Visual bin map by zone, with occupancy and fill levels
    • Directed putaway and picking
    • Cycle counts by bin and a full scan log
    • Bin stock reconciled continuously against the inventory ledger
  • Manufacturing (Work Orders & MRP)

    Operations

    Work orders, routings and MRP for assembled products

    • Manufacturing orders with priority, due date and progress
    • Routings across work centres with capacity and cost rates
    • Material requirements planning that proposes what to buy and make
    • Shop-floor scanning, scrap capture and OEE by work centre
    • Finished goods and work-in-progress posted to the ledger
  • Quality Management (QMS/LIMS)

    Operations

    Quality evidence for every batch, supplier and complaint

    • Inspection plans and inspections on receipt, in process and before dispatch
    • Intake tolerances, measuring instruments and calibration
    • Certificates of analysis issued per batch
    • Customer complaints and corrective actions (CAPA) through to verification
    • Supplier quality scorecards
  • Maintenance (CMMS)

    Operations

    Maintenance that happens before the breakdown

    • Equipment register linked to the fixed asset register
    • Preventive service schedules that raise work orders on time
    • Maintenance work orders with spares drawn from stock
  • Production (Batch/Process)

    Operations

    Batch and process production with yield you can trust

    • Bills of materials and process stages with approval
    • Production batches from planned to closed, with actual input and output
    • Premix and fortification recording
    • In-process QA and non-conformance logging
    • Daily milling, yield, wastage, shift and OEE reports

The backbone every Covadesk business runs on

The same core modules run across every industry, so purchasing, stock, sales, accounts and people share one database and one version of the truth.

  • Procurement

    Operations

    Buy with control, from requisition to supplier payment

    • Purchase requisitions routed for approval by value, branch and role
    • Requests for quotation with side-by-side supplier comparison and award
    • Purchase orders that inherit item VAT rates and approved prices
    • Goods received notes with QA tolerance bands for weight, moisture and grade
    • Three-way match of PO, GRN and supplier invoice before anything is paid
    • Supplier advances tracked and recovered against later invoices
    • Supplier register with categories, terms and performance history
  • Inventory

    Operations

    One stock figure that finance and the store agree on

    • Multi-warehouse stock levels, by item, location and batch
    • Batch and expiry tracking with QA holds that block issue until released
    • Inter-branch and inter-warehouse transfers with in-transit stock
    • Stock takes with variance approval and automatic write-off postings
    • Reorder levels per warehouse and full movement history per item
    • Stock ageing and valuation reports that tie to the general ledger
    • Units of measure with conversions — buy in bags, sell in kilos
  • Sales

    Commercial

    Quote, sell, invoice and collect in one flow

    • Quotations that convert to sales orders, delivery notes and invoices
    • Counter POS and counter sales with cash, M-Pesa, card and voucher tenders
    • Price lists and customer categories with credit limits enforced at order time
    • Credit notes, returns and receipts — including refunds on the receipt
    • AR ageing, dunning and credit-override approvals with an audit trail
    • Van sales with load-out, field selling and end-of-day reconciliation
    • Sales commissions and a sales register by channel and period
  • Finance & Accounting

    Finance

    A general ledger every module posts into as it happens

    • Chart of accounts, accounting periods and period close
    • Journals with approval, plus automatic postings from every module
    • Bank accounts, statement import and bank reconciliation
    • Supplier payments, petty cash and AP ageing
    • VAT and withholding tax computed at the transaction line, with returns data
    • Budgets by account and cost centre, with budget-versus-actual
    • Trial balance, profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow on demand
  • Human Resources

    People

    Your people, their records and their requests in one place

    • Employee records with contracts and organisation structure
    • Leave policies, balances, requests and approvals — with self-service
    • Attendance capture and shift rosters
    • Appraisals and disciplinary cases with a recorded outcome
    • An HR service desk for employee requests
  • Payroll

    People

    Kenyan payroll that is right the first time

    • Pay runs with maker-checker approval before release
    • PAYE on current KRA bands with personal relief
    • NSSF, SHIF and Affordable Housing Levy calculated per employee
    • Salary structures, allowances, deductions and staff loans
    • Statutory return files and payslips generated from the same run
    • Payroll journals posted straight to the general ledger
  • Fixed Assets

    Finance

    A fixed asset register your auditor will sign

    • Asset register by category, location and custodian
    • Scheduled depreciation posted to the ledger
    • Disposals with gain or loss calculated and booked
    • Transfers between branches with history
  • Delivery & Fleet

    Operations

    Get orders out of the gate and onto the road

    • Dispatch runs that load delivery notes onto a vehicle and driver
    • Vehicle and driver registers with documents and expiry dates
    • Delivery routes and run status from loading to complete
    • Fuel issues and vehicle maintenance logged per vehicle
  • Reports & Analytics

    Insights

    Answers across every module, without exporting to Excel

    • Executive dashboard with cash, sales, stock, output and receivables
    • Ready-made payroll, HR, sales, stock and finance reports
    • Saved reports, with exports to CSV, Excel and PDF
  • Integrations

    Settings

    Connected to the systems Kenyan businesses depend on

    • KRA eTIMS invoice and credit-note transmission with retry and a send log
    • M-Pesa C2B, STK Push and B2C through Daraja, matched to customer accounts
    • SMS and email notifications
    • Webhooks and API keys for your own systems

Add more when you need it

Any other module can be switched on for your organisation — same data, nothing to re-implement.

  • CRM
  • Projects & Job Costing
  • Contract Management
  • Documents
  • Customer & Supplier Portals
  • Helpdesk / Service
  • BI & Workflow Builder
  • DigiSales (Field Sales)
  • Milling Intake & Weighbridge
  • Construction & Contracting
  • Real Estate & Property
  • SACCO / Microfinance
  • Logistics / 3PL
  • Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • Fuel Stations & Petroleum
  • Automotive Workshops
  • Professional Services
  • NGO / Donor-Funded
  • Hospitality

Compliance

Kenyan rules, built in

KRA eTIMS
Invoices transmitted to eTIMS.
Quality records
Inspections, certificates and CAPA kept per batch and order.
Payroll statutory
Factory payroll with PAYE, NSSF, SHIF and Housing Levy.

Questions

Covadesk for manufacturers: common questions

Does Covadesk include MRP?

Yes. The planner explodes multi-level bills of materials against stock, open orders and demand over a horizon you choose, and suggests purchase and manufacturing orders. Nothing is created until you confirm the suggestions.

How does Covadesk calculate unit cost?

Material, labour and overhead are recorded as cost entries against the order, and unit cost is computed over good output. Scrap is not allowed to make each surviving unit look cheaper.

Can operators record production on the shop floor?

Yes. Operators scan the start and finish of operations, good output and scrap, which feeds progress, capacity and OEE.

See Covadesk running for manufacturers

Book a 30-minute demo. Bring a real problem — a stock variance you can’t explain, a payroll run that takes three days — and we’ll show you how it works in Covadesk.

Prefer to talk? Call +254 117 390 922 or email info@fecn.co.ke